Nurse’s dementia therapy dog gets hospital patients talking and walking

A nurse in the North of England has told how patients with dementia are reaping the physiological and psychological benefits of animal assisted therapy thanks to her specially trained Labrador retriever. Julie Young, an advanced nurse practitioner at Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation…

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